Susriyati Mahanal

Empowering Critical and Creative Thinking Skills through Remap STAD Learning Model

This research is a quasi-experiment with non-equivalent control group design with the aim to know critical and creative thinking skills of students through Remap STAD (Reading-Concept Mapping-Student Teams Achievement Division) learning model. Participants in this study were all tenth-grade students from two senior high schools, i.e. SMAN 1 Batu and SMA Islam Batu, East Java, Indonesia. The four classes were selected from the equivalent classes, of which two classes were used as experimental classes that were taught by Remap STAD and two classes were used as control classes that were taught by conventional learning. Measurement of critical and creative thinking skills by using essay tests, then the answers were assessed by critical thinking skills rubric and creative thinking skills rubric, respectively. The research data were tested by covariance analysis. The results of this study indicate that students who are taught using Remap STAD learning model have higher critical and creative thinking skills than students who are taught by conventional learning.

Increasing Islamic Junior High School Students Learning Outcomes through Integration of Science Learning and Islamic Values

Learning results are influenced by several factors, including learning strategies. Islamic values-integrated learning is one of the strategies that can be applied to improve students’ learning results. Science learning integrated with Islamic values provides the opportunity for students to relate the science knowledge with their concepts and experiences in real life as Muslims, so that students can feel that their learning is meaningful. This research is a quasi-experimental research aims to investigate the effect of science learning integrated with Islamic values on students’ learning results. The learning materials taught in this research were substances and the changes, temperature and heat, and energy in living systems. The population of this research was seventh grade students of Islamic Junior High School (MTs) in West Lombok, Indonesia, which were taken by using cluster random sampling technique. The data were analysed using ANCOVA. The results of this research showed that science learning integrated with Islamic values had a significant effect on students’ learning results with p = 0.032, and its’ corrected mean score was 15.196 % higher than that of the students taught by using the conventional learning.